Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr

When Dianna was thirteen, she was caught in the back of a Buick with her brother's seventeen-year-old friend.  By her father.  She was instantly labeled the school slut, and her father has never looked at her the same way since.  Now Dianna is sixteen, still trying to redeem herself.  But it's hard.  The jocks of the school consider her public property, to be used at will because she doesn't care.  Her father wouldn't be surprised if she slept with her boss.  This summer, she's trying to make things different.

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I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!  I really did.  It was hard to read, but it was great.  I really felt sorry for Dianna.  There are so many things that normal, unlabeled 'til high school teens get to do, that she never got to even seriously think about.  And it really hurts to read about how she thinks.  Honestly, I felt my heart tearing inside.  It was hard to read, but the truths this book sent out needed to be heard.  I didn't really cry when I read it, but the pages were blurred more than a few times.

Taryn



P.S.  I've noticed how I never really comment about how well the book was written, but according to my philosophy, that's not the most important thing.  How does that work, you ask.  Well, anybody can write, all it takes to write well is honing, and, if you're published, you've probably already honed your craft well.  Of course there are exceptions, aka Twilight  some books that never should have been published, and forced upon our eyes (Twilight these books tend to be over publicized, turned into sucky movies, with sucky actors and always make whatever medium they are thrust upon disintegrate more than they already are in our modern days).  What I consider the most important thing about writing is if your book made somebody feel something.  If the things you were writing jump of the page and became more than words and ink and paper.  If it made somebody think, and sit quietly for a couple minutes after they turned the last page.  If it talked about something real, something new or not-so-new.  A book that talked about a subject that needed to be talked about.  It's books like that, that make a difference.